Any good yum repository management dashboards?

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I'm currently managing hundreds of CentOS/Amazon Linux servers, and our homegrown tools for managing the myriad package versions seems inadequate and unnecessary. What I'm looking for is a tool that each server would connect to and would then report what packages are installed and what their versions are. In essence, I would like to have a dashboard where I can easily see which servers are behind on their packages, and so need to run a yum update.

We are already using Chef for configuration management in general, but it doesn't quite solve this problem (at least not that I've seen).

I think Ubuntu has a service that does something like this, but I haven't seen anything for RedHat-flavored systems.

Thanks!

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '13 at 19:03

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You're looking for Spacewalk.

answered Mar 27 '13 at 19:03

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Looks interesting. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll give it a shot. – wrangler Apr 01 '13 at 18:36
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Holy crap! Bad mod, answering a shopping question. – HopelessN00b May 02 '14 at 23:43
"Spacewalk project has been discontinued on May 31 2020." Any other recommendations? – duct_tape_coder Mar 14 '22 at 20:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '14 at 21:26

IBM Endpoint Manager for Patch Management provides RHEL patching dashboard and shows you exactly which systems need patched, and supports patch base-lining.

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v26r1/topic/com.ibm.tem.doc_9.1/welcome/kc_welcome-patchmanagement91.html

Any good yum repository management dashboards?

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